<p>More Colleges Plan to Snub Annual U.S. News Ranking (Update2)
By Matthew Keenan</p>
<p>June 19 (Bloomberg) -- A group of U.S. liberal arts colleges plans to stop participating in U.S. News & World Report's higher- education rankings, saying the magazine's yearly survey misleads students.</p>
<p>The decision by the group, which includes colleges such as Williams, Amherst and Swarthmore, compounds the resistance to the system used by U.S. News, which compiled its first rankings in 1983 and began publishing them annually in 1987. The Washington- based magazine is facing criticism for using subjective criteria to evaluate a school's value, particularly a survey asking administrators to pass judgment on other schools' reputations.</p>
<p>Like other sources, Bloomberg has overstated this, either for dramatic effect or because they don't understand how USNews works. Which they do accurately report that this is about "boycotting" the reputational survey, I have seen no one urging colleges to stop participating altogether. These colleges will likely still complete the data request that USNews sends, and thus they will still be participating in USNews' efforts.</p>